A First-Timer Turns ‘Gone With the Wind’ Into a Musical

New York Times: "MARGARET MARTIN is, to say the least, a highly unlikely choice to write the book, lyrics and music for a major West End musical version of “Gone With the Wind.” In 1998 Ms. Martin, who wrote songs in her spare time and had never had a play produced, began a quixotic project to adapt the Civil War epic to the stage. She went on to win permission from the estate of the author Margaret Mitchell to mount it and then persuaded none other than Trevor Nunn to direct the thing."